Cosplay

Cosy Mermaid tail tutorial :3

I made a little present for a friend as she was leaving for her year abroad and i thought maybe some of you wanna check it out too :3 sooo lets get started

What you need:

- fluffy/cosy fabric

- tape measure

- fabric scissors

- fabric friendly markers /chalk

- pin needles

- sewing mashine

Step 1:

Take out your fabric and fold it in half (fold should be parallel to the longes side of the fabric and the "pretty" side should face inwards) now lay it down on a flat and big surface (big table/clean floor)

Step 2:

Measure around your hip area (wides part of your lower body half). For example 100cm. Divied the measured number by two (in my example 50cm). I would suggest adding 5-10 extra centimetres depending on how loose you want your tail to be. I prefer it a lil more loose so you can easily put it on.

Step 3:

Now you just measure your number (50cm with 5cm extra - in my case) in the middle of the upper (shorter) edge of your folded fabric.

Then you draw a line straigt down the long side of the fabric on both ends of your lately drawn line on the shorter edge. Now you got a big rectangle thats open at one short side.

Step 4:

Depending on how long you want your tail to be you now draw a line to "close" the rectangle. For that i just lay down onto the fabric and asked someone to mark where my feet ends. I next drew some little markings on the fabric just about where my knees were (still laying/sitting on the fabric).

Now you can draw a line from this markings to the "closing" line of your rectangle on the fabric, just make a curve to make it more tail looking.

Step 5:

You can now add your fin but try to make it kind of identical on both sides. Now you can pin along all drawn edges and cut along the lines (see picture).

Step 6:

Now sew along the line ( i did this without a stop) but you need to leave an opening on the top so you can slip right in ^-^

Then you need to flip it inside out (pretty side was still turned inwards)

You can now fill the fin with aome stuffing (if you want it to be a little thicker)

Step 7:

Wear it and enjoy it :D or make someone else happy with a little present ^-^

It didn't take that long but i guess you need 1 -2 hours depending on how skilled you are :)

Hope you liked it, and i hope the explaination was kinda ok..just ask if you didnt understand a part or the whole tutorial xD